Hand & Wrist Pain

UR Medicine’s Hand and Wrist Services provides surgical and non-surgical care to adults and children throughout the nine-county Rochester region. Our team approach involves physicians and therapists who specialize specifically in the hand, wrist, and upper extremities.

Members of our Hand and Upper Extremity Rehabilitation Team are all Certified Hand Therapists trained to address issues created by repetitive motion, work injuries, auto-related injuries, and chronic pain disorders.

Our treatments well beyond physical therapy and pain relief. Our team collaborates with your family, your insurance company, and even your employer to change your environment and your lifestyle to help free you from pain.

We begin with a full patient evaluation. Then we develop a therapy and care plan that can include any of the following:

• Dexterity training
• Edema (swelling) management
• Functional capacity evaluation
• Individualized therapeutic exercises
• Injury management and prevention
• Joint protection education
• Onsite ergonomic evaluation
• Orthotic fabrication and training
• Pain control
• Prosthetic training
• Scar management
• Sensibility re-education
• Strengthening
• Training in activities of daily living
• Work conditioning/job simulation

Treatments we specialize in include:

• Arthroscopy
• Cyst or tumor excision
• Dupytren's contracture release surgery
• Endoscopic carpal tunnel surgery
• Fracture fixation
• Joint alignment
• Microsurgery
• Peripheral nerve surgery
• Radial nerve release surgeries
• Tendon repairs
• Tendon transfer
• Tenosynovectomy
• Trigger finger release surgery
• Ulnar nerve release surgery
• Wrist fusion